Don Muraco

Don Muraco (born 1949) is an American retired professional wrestler, born at Sunset Beach on Oahu, Hawaii, and of Native Hawaiian heritage. A Hawaii state amateur wrestling champion for Punahou School in 1967, he chose professional wrestling over football and trained in territories such as NWA All-Star Wrestling, Pacific Northwest Wrestling and Championship Wrestling from Florida before his first big break in the American Wrestling Association. He won the NWA Americas Heavyweight Championship in 1975 and is best known for his run in the World Wrestling Federation from 1981 to 1988, where he held the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship twice, first winning it from Pedro Morales on June 20, 1981, and was crowned the first winner of the King of the Ring tournament in 1985. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Professional Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2014.